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Title: Changing Roles of Ability and Education in U.S. Intergenerational Mobility
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Richey, Jeremiah Alexander Rosburg, Alicia |
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Changing Roles of Ability and Education in U.S. Intergenerational Mobility Economic Inquiry 55,1 (January 2017): 187-201. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecin.12362/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mobility, Economic; Parental Influences; Socioeconomic Background Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data on young adults from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we investigate the changing roles of ability and education in the transmission of economic status across generations. We find that ability plays a substantially diminished role for the most recent cohort whereas education plays a much larger role. The first finding results primarily from a smaller effect of children's ability on status, the second from an increased correlation between parental status and educational attainment. A replication of the analysis by gender reveals that the changes in the role of ability are largely driven by men whereas the changes in education's role are largely driven by women. |
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Richey, Jeremiah Alexander and Alicia Rosburg. "Changing Roles of Ability and Education in U.S. Intergenerational Mobility." Economic Inquiry 55,1 (January 2017): 187-201.
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